Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLWYD, STEPHEN (1794 - 1854), musician Born 1794 at Llystyn-bach, Nevern, Pembrokeshire, the son of Joseph and Elizabeth Lloyd. He was given some education and was then brought to his father's trade of tailoring. His music instructor was Dafydd Siencyn Morgan. He settled at Fishguard, was appointed precentor at the Baptist chapel there, and soon became known throughout the county as a musician. In 1840 he moved to Pontypridd, where he
LLWYD, HUMPHREY (c. 1527 - 1568), antiquary and map-maker had received his B.A. in 1547 and thereafter had been a commoner of Brasenose College where he received his M.A. in 1551. Wood's assertion that Llwyd studied medicine appears to be based on the existence of two translations of medical texts which were ascribed to Llwyd. However, as Professor R. Geraint Gruffydd points out, they are more likely to have been the work of Humphrey Lloyd of Leighton who
LLYWELYN FARDD (fl. c. 1150-1175), poet His dates and list of works are not easily fixed. Cerdd Dafod gives c. 1185 - 1220, but J. Lloyd-Jones has c. 1155 - 1200. It may be suggested that there were two poets of the same name, one in the 12th century, and the other in the 13th century, and that that is why the ' Red Book of Hergest ' refers to ' Llywelyn Fardd, son of Cywryd.' This poet was the earlier, and apparently a native of
LLYWELYN GOCH ap MEURIG HEN (fl. c. 1360-1390), poet Lloyd) of Pennal, Merioneth, has become famous. A number of other cywyddau are also attributed to him. Some of his poetry is contained in The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales Iolo Goch composed an elegy on his death.
LOCKLEY, RONALD MATHIAS (1903 - 2000), farmer, naturalist, conservationist and author which Ann their daughter relates her life on the island: Early Morning Island or A Dish of Sprats (1939), featuring the Baron, George Henry Owen Harries, a colourful character who had served in the Boer War and from the late 1930s onwards lived with the Lockley family as a mechanic and handyman. An account of his life was written down by Lockley and published as A Pot of Smoke, 1940. During the first
LORT family Stackpole, GEORGE LORT came from Staffordshire to Pembrokeshire c. 1567 as steward of the Stackpole estate under Margaret Stanley; later on he bought the estate. His heir was his son ROGER LORT (1555? - 1613), sheriff in 1607; then came HENRY LORT (sheriff in 1619), who was said to have been deeply involved in smuggling on the Pembrokeshire coast. Henry had three sons: ROGER (who lived at Stackpole); JOHN
LOWE, WALTER BEZANT (1854 - 1928), antiquary Born at Islington, 3 January 1854. He went to Rugby (becoming head boy) and S. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1877 with a First (1876) in science, chiefly chemistry. From 1877 till 1879 he was on the Britannia as one of the tutors of the future king George V and his elder brother; later, he had a private school at Fareham. In 1904 he retired to Cae'r Carw, Llanfairfechan, where
MACLEAN, Sir EWEN JOHN (1865 - 1953), first professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Welsh National School of Medicine chairman of the Body during the height of the BMA's struggle with the Liberal government in 1911 over the introduction of the contentious National Health Insurance Bill which many in the medical profession regarded as a challenge to their status. Maclean, whose brother Donald was a prominent Liberal MP and a friend of David Lloyd George, was unfairly accused of being too lenient with the government in
MADRYN family Madryn, Llŷn made it easy for his relative, Thomas Meredith, headmaster of the Friars School at Bangor, to go up to London in 1647 to secure moneys that were due to the school, and sat himself on a committee appointed in 1650 to examine the Friars ' accounts; through his Anglesey marriage, with a daughter of Plas Llandegfan, he enabled his relative, Evan Lloyd, rector of Rhoscolyn, to secure another living in
MARTIN, Sir RICHARD (1843 - 1922), industrialist and public man , but in this he was not successful. He urged upon the Haldane Commission on Welsh university education (1916-18) the necessity of having a university college at Swansea which would specialize in technical education; it was founded in 1920, and when the foundation stone was laid by king George V, Martin was knighted. Besides obtaining a university college for his town, he was also responsible for
MATHEW family Castell y Mynach, descended the lines of Llandaff and Radyr frequently connected by inter-marriage. The influence of the stock developed after Bosworth under the protection of Sir Rhys ap Thomas, who married Janet Mathew. It declined after the death, in 1557, of Sir GEORGE MATHEW of Radyr, M.P., and sheriff. Other considerable figures in the political life of Glamorgan were the brothers Sir DAVID MATHEW of St. Fagans (died
MATHIAS family Llwyngwaren, Llwyn Gwaring, Llangwaren, Lamphey . Records, ii, 41-2); it becomes stabilized as a surname with THOMAS MATHIAS (died at the end of 1617 or the beginning of 1618) - his second wife, Ursula, was a daughter of the antiquary George Owen of Henllys, but the later Mathias families do not descend from her. With his son JOHN MATHIAS comes the shift from Clastir to Llwyngwaren; he was on the county Parliamentary Committee during the Civil War

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